wall in
verb
walled in; walling in; walls in
: to surround (something) with a wall or with something that is like a wall
The school grounds are walled in.
They walled the garden in with rows of thick shrubs.
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Najib was in that position in 2011 when teenagers who scrawled antigovernment graffiti on a school wall in Daraa were arrested and tortured.
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Ghaith Alsayed, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
Nataliia and Valerii papered the walls in bright patterns and planted cosmos in the front yard.
—Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
The game’s only run of the final three innings came on a Jung Hoo Lee solo home run, his second of the year, beyond the right field wall in the eighth.
—Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
On the morning of April 12, Raphael Garcia Ramirez, 21, was driving an SUV that crashed into a wall in a commercial parking lot on University Avenue in La Mesa, the county agency reported.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
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Ghaith Alsayed, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
Nataliia and Valerii papered the walls in bright patterns and planted cosmos in the front yard.
—Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
The game’s only run of the final three innings came on a Jung Hoo Lee solo home run, his second of the year, beyond the right field wall in the eighth.
—Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
On the morning of April 12, Raphael Garcia Ramirez, 21, was driving an SUV that crashed into a wall in a commercial parking lot on University Avenue in La Mesa, the county agency reported.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
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“Wall in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall%20in. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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